On July 21, 2021, 16-year-old Nylah Linear was walking with her two younger sisters to a family cookout on Cecil Avenue in the Shawnee neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, when a drive-by shooting occurred. Nylah was struck by a stray bullet and found by her mother, Candy Linear, after the gunfire; a 15-year-old boy was also injured. Nylah was a rising junior at PRP High School, employed since age 14, and remembered by family as someone who brought peace and made them smile.

As of July 2024 no arrests have been announced in Nylah’s killing. Her family says the original detective retired without their knowledge and the case was inactive for a time before a new detective was assigned. In Nylah’s memory Candy Linear started the Nylah Linear Foundation to support families who have lost children to gun violence and to press for answers.

Did anyone in the Shawnee neighborhood on July 21, 2021, see the shooting or know anything that could help the investigation?